BOUGHN, Michael. 22 Skiddo / SubTractions. Toronto: Bookthug, 2009. First Edition. 8vo. Perfect bound into Wrappers. New. / . ISBN: 978-1-897388341. 2009 Winner of the Friggin Prize, this book is a "Revealing Story of Dope, Sin and Shattered Dreams"...."An Incandescent engagement with brilliance renders a barely articulate world on the edge of meaning." -- Robert Creeley

Toronto: Coach House Books, 2003. First Edition. 8vo. Perfect bound into Wrappers. New. 84pp. Adrift in history and myth, fairy tales and TV, the tedious and the marvellous, you'll find Dislocations in Crystal. Crossing and recrossing untold regions disguised as a New World, these carefully crafted poems, in the tradition of Robin Blaser and Jack Spicer, scatter the seeds of the yet-to-be-though, drawing readers onward thowards a dream that lies past apocalypse.

No place: Imago 17, First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Wrappers. Fine. No Place, no date. 44pp. Contains work by Frank Davey, David Bromige, Brian Fawcett, Paul Mariah, Fred Wah and George Bowering. This issue of Imago is dedicated to change.

BOWERING, George. Fulgencio. Vancouver: Nomados, 2008. Limited Edition. 8vo. Stapled Wrappers. New. 34pp. What a necessary poem this is, as USAmericans look for a new President and Cubans without Castro try to keep what they have so hard-won. The grotesque dead hand of Fulgencio Batista y ZaldÃvar and the deadening grasp of the United Fruit Company, tyrannies of the past right here right now, wrong now, wrong always, implacably here always, the raw sugar of greed lurking beneath the poemÃ­s flat matter-of-fact absurdity, grim comedyÃ­s helpless outrage skittering over monstrous abuse of capital power. Compelling writing, the links between poetry and the political here inescapable. Bowering at his best. -- Peter Quartermain

Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1976. First Edition. 12mo. np. Perfect bound into printed wrappers with a die-cut front cover. An unusually fine, unread copy. This copy has also been signed by Bowering on the title page.

Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1974. First Edition. Square 16mo. Perfect bound into Wrappers. Signed by Author. Almost Fine. np [48 pages]. Signed by Bowering on the title page. Some faint browning to the wrappers, faint bump to the upper outside corners.

Vancouver: Georgia Straight Writing Suppliment #7, 1972. First Edition. 8vo. 103pp. Perfect bound into wrappers. One of 500 copies printed by the author at the York Street Commune. Some creasing to the spine and some mild scuffing to the front and rear covers. This copy has been signed by Bowering on the title page.

Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1967. Limited First Edition. Oblong 12mo. np [24 pages]. One of 500 copies bound into green felt-like wrappers printed with white ink. One of the more interestingly produced items to come out of the Coach House in its time, this pennant shaped book by the poet who became Canada's first poet laureate was recently re-issued by Coach House Books in Toronto. In its original state it is impossible to find. And yet, interestingly, here it is. This is a Very Good copy, with only a little wear to the tip of the pennant, mostly light creasing.

BOWERING, George. Concentric Circles. Windsor: Black Moss Press, 1977. First Edition. 177x198mm. Trade Paperback. Signed by Author. Almost Fine. 66pp. Bowering's second published novel, although it is his first major piece of fiction, written in the 1960s. This copy has been neatly signed by Bowering on the title page.

Coatsworth: Black Moss Press, 1977. First Wraps. 12mo. Mass Market Paperback. Fine / No Jacket. 66pp. Bowering's first major piece of fiction, written in the 1960s and published in 1977 to help kickstart 'a new direction by Bowering toward more prose work' [from the back cover copy]. Wraps issued simultaneously with a hardcover edtion, though both are scarce. Though some faint shelfwear is present at the outer extremities of the wrappers, this appears to be an unread copy.

A crow in the windseems to knowas much as you do.Crows in the Wind is the first part of a series of chapbook-length poems by CanadaÃ­s former Poet Laureate, Uncle George. Since January, Bowering has taken it upon himself to compose a poem per day in month-long segments. Only now has be begun the arduous task of searching out chapbook publishers (which will be difficult, since there arenÃ­t very many of us around!) to produce the project as it was intended. BookThug is pleased to initiate the project. The second book, A Knot of Light will appear shortly from XXXXX XXXXXXXX's No Press.Everyone knows George Bowering.AVAILABLEISBN 0-9739742-7-3Poetry; 37pp; 5.5x8.5; Stapled and bound into printed wrappers100 copiesNote: the cover is printed black on black so the image accompanying this page probably doesn't look too interesting. It is, however, gorgeous to behold.

BOWERING, George. Curious. Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1973. First Edition. 8vo. Original Wrappers. Signed by Author. Fine / Fine. np. Bound into stiff paper wrappers, with printed dustjacket fixed to spine. Signed by Bowering on the title page. 48 poems on 48 poets, with a section of black and white plates from photographs.

Red Deer: Red Deer College Press, 1988. First Edition. 8vo. 100pp. Perfect bound into wrappers. Fine. This copy has been signed by Bowering on the title page. This book was the subject of likely the most scathing entry in William Hoffer's final catalogue of Canadian Literature, which I won't repeat here in case thy ears are sensitive.

BOWERING, George. Flycatcher & Other Stories. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1974. First Wrappers. 202x127mm. Trade Paperback. Good +. 114pp. Wrappers are a little stained and shelfworn. Internally clean. Laid in as a bookmark between pages 46 & 47 is a ticket stub to a performance by Anthony Braxton at York University 7 October 1974. Cover images are by General Idea, making this a somewhat unusual Oberon publication.